[…] Low Countries, the Belgian chansonnier Jacques Brel sang about his flat motherland: “Where men are dwarfs un der the heaven, with cathedrals as their only mountains.” Indeed, the classical landmarks of the cities on […]
[…] origins.” Researchers associated with the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (FARMS) have rejected hemispheric mo dels of the Book of Mormon but still express “confidence in an Israelite genetic presence in Central […]
[…] of Mormon Thought 13 (Fall 1980): 63-78. Ibid., 71. John A. Widtsoe, Evidences and Reconciliations (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1951), 149. John A. Widtsoe, “Were There Pre-Adamites?” Improvement Era 51 (May 1948): 205. Joseph […]
[…] South Africa’s biggest black township. Soweto has a population of somewhere between one and three million Africans, depending on whether you believe the government numbers or the more reliable statistics of market researchers and […]
[…] formal training during the ten days or so they spent in a mission home in Salt Lake City. Today they receive intensive language and missionary training in fourteen missionary training centers around the world, […]
The 1960s in the United States was a decade probably best described as tumultuous, confrontational, bewildering, but also uniquely exalting. During the period a long-standing national culture appeared to crumble, and conflict on a […]
[…] It used to be that we “prairie Mormons” outnumbered “mountain Mormons” in parts of the country, especially Missouri, Iowa, and Michigan. I grew up in Flint, Michigan, and attended the RLDS-sponsored Graceland College in […]
[…] funda mentally superstitious and irrational, with an appeal only for the poor and uneducated. Even before the description of Joseph Smith as “ignorant” and “illiterate” by the residents of Palmyra and the denunciation of […]
[…] spite her, I’d started blathering on about my list of names, names that were also characteristics: Feli city, Faith, Hope, Miracle. I’d insisted that they were exceptional names for a girl because they emanated […]
[…] perhaps even surpassing, the fondest dreams of those who had planned Nauvoo. Meanwhile, in Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Pennsylvania, New York, Kentucky, Canada and Ohio, there were hundreds of faithful Saints in tiny, semi-isolated […]